Meeting Location: HUB 102

President’s Session Meeting Location: HUB 102

Saturday, October 7th, 2017

I. Call to Order

 Time: 9:05am

II. Roll Call

 Not in Attendance:

i. Abington

III. Approval of 10/6 President’s Session Minutes

 Altoona: Move

 Harrisburg: Second

 All in Favor

IV. New Business

 CRC Vote

i. Everyone turned in votes for CRC commonwealth members

 Smoke free task force

i. Rachel Miller is representing CCSG

ii. Here are recommendations

iii. We are passing legislation that we support the committee, UPUA passed this on Wednesday

iv. In contingency with UPUA and GPSA

v. Recommendations (Support of Penn State smoke free)

v.1. First recommendation is to become smoke free

v.2. Second recommendation is to create an office for the smoke free task force v.3. Third recommendation is to implement this in Fall 2017, This spring a small launch of this will be implemented, summer of 2018 will attempt to get employees on board

v.4. Fourth: Tobacco programs will be available

v.5. Fifth: Enforcement of policy should be through the mechanism of peer support

v.6. Media Campaign

v.7. Each campus work with community

vi. Moustafa (Behrend): Can you post on BOX?

vi.1.a. Zak: Can do

vii. Ryan Morris (Berks): I like what we have here

viii. Collin (York): Is there different implementation for each campus?

viii.1. Yes, full-time director will oversee implementing it in a certain way that fits to each campus

 Greek Life

i. Anything to do with Greek Life go to Hunter!

ii. Greek Life campuses see Hunter

 Ad-Hoc

i. Asking for input on what Ad-Hocs you would like to see

ii. Ones we have come up with:

ii.1. Sustainability

ii.1.a. Relation to housing and food services

ii.1.b. Commonwealth campuses to not have a composting facility, UP does

ii.1.c. Anything relating to sustainability

ii.1.d. Feedback:

ii.1.d.i. Altoona: thumbs up

ii.1.d.i.1. Green to-go boxes on our campus, must bring them back so that they can be washed and reused, but most students do not return ii.1.d.ii. Berks: Sustainability team is formed, community service, clean trails around campus, use the trash they find to build new things

ii.1.d.iii. Beaver: Community garden is being started

ii.1.d.iii.1. Giving to vegetables to salvation army

ii.1.d.iv. Shenango: Also has a community garden, problem is that students do not want to take the time to separate their trash

ii.1.d.v. DuBois: Separate containers for trash, recycling ad hoc

ii.2. Student Leadership Styles

ii.2.a. Everyone has a different leadership style

ii.2.b. Feedback: Most campuses give thumbs up

ii.3. SMART Goals

ii.3.a. Feedback: Most campuses give thumbs up

ii.4. Diveristy Summit

ii.4.a. Feedback: Thumbs up

ii.5. How to Plan Cross-Campus Events

ii.5.a. Feedback:

ii.5.a.i. A couple of campuses are close to each other

ii.5.a.ii. Mix of thumbs up and down, mostly No

ii.5.a.iii. Collin (York): A million things he would rather do than trying to work with other campuses

ii.6. Transition of Administrations

ii.6.a. Feedback: One Thumbs down, most thumbs up iii. Any other ideas from campuses?

iii.1.Ryan Morris (Berks): Club and organization by campus (collaboration between clubs)

iii.1.a. Ann-Queen: This happened 2 years and was not very effective

iii.2.Austin (Fayette): Getting athletes involved in campus events

iii.2.a. Most campuses agree with this

iii.2.b. Megan (Behrend): Sometimes athletes are just too busy to go to events iii.3.Schulykill: Commuter Problems

iii.3.a. Everyone is divided

iii.3.b. Commuters won’t go in the

iii.4.Samuel (Abington): Space on campus that recently opened, I was told that the space was basically only for certain orgs but when it reopened they reiterated the fact that anyone can use it

iii.5.Collin (York): Should have specifics of things to discuss

 CFB

i. Zak is a partial expert, Andrea is the expert!

ii. Pulling of funds or adding of funds

iii. Estimate of what enrollment will be on each campus and give out money based on that (Permanent Allocation)

iii.1.When they get the real enrollment total, they might have to take back a certain amount of money if you have less students than they originally forecasted

iv. Andrea: Some campuses give waivers to certain students, they do not have to pay the fee

iv.1. UP does not take your funds!

iv.2. Asked that the budget office makes the adjustment permanently so campuses aren’t faced with the challenge of allocating funds that they actually don’t have

 Paying for CCSG

i. 54 cents per student, increase of $1

i.1. It was originally funded through administration, but we wanted to be more independent like UPUA

ii. The Problem: We give the campuses autonomy to decide where they want to pull the funds from

iii. We increased fee to supplement an original cost

iv. Make sure that your voice is being heard in that decision-making process

v. Andrea: One or two campuses decided to take it from parking fines, most campuses decided to take it out of the SGA fund

v.1. If you were not involved in this decision, I would ask next year to be involved

v.2. CCSG’s role is to educate you at a university perspective vi. Ryan (Berks): This whole thing came out over the summer, a lot of the DSA’s just made the call because students were not on campus at the time

vii. Zak: Everyone should talk to their DSA about this (you need to be involved in the decision-making process)!!

viii. Andrea: Your facility portion of the fee, is being put into the same pot as it was before it was only one fee

viii.1. Two documents that inform the use of the facility fee: If you have not seen these, please look at those! We will be reminding the DSA’s that these documents do exist

viii.2. If you are saving for a major project, we suggest/encourage that you set aside a small amount of money to do immediate things that might come up, so that students see that the fee is being used for their benefit

viii.3. Communication between administration and campuses, talk to DSA and also use the membership of CFB in that

viii.3.a. New website for student fee (studentfee.psu.edu)

Adjournment: 10:01 am